Ave!

Dyrrhachium, Illyria, AR drachm, After 229 BC

Uncertain Magistrates

Silver alloy; 17mm/3.2gm

Con/ Off struck on the obverse, otherwise, Good Fine

Obv/ TIMA (?); Cow standing left, licking suckling calf below; magistrates name above

Rev/ Legends about double stellate pattern. See the photo!

Ref/ Ceka variety

Seller's Note/ These issues were struck for so many centuries under so many magistrates names that it makes our head swim, you know? And the soft strike with the missing legend did not help. Ugh.

Such extensive coinage was issued at Dyrrhachium, in present day Albania, under the Roman Republic. The drachm circulated alongside, and presumably at parity with, Roman denarii.